Three recent and very large projects aim to integrate several “omics” approaches in order to promote pro-active medicine and to create a “Wellness industry”.

The Oldfield mouse and the Deer mouse build very different burrows in nature and also in the laboratory. This behaviour is innate and, in a series of beautiful experiments making use of new generation sequencing for genetic ...

The likelihood of adult psychiatric problems is increased by childhood trauma, particularly so in carriers of certain alleles of certain genes. I discuss here a recent paper that sheds light on the mechanism of this effect, ...

Analysing the data recently presented by Jiankui He and assuming that it is authentic shows that the goal of abolishing the expression of CCR5 may have been reached for one of the resulting twins, although this remains to ...

Careful GWAS analysis of a group of mixed-ancestry Latino-American individuals reveals the role of a new “light” variant of the MSFD12 gene which appears to originate in some of the ...

The synthesis of four new nucleotide analogues that can form hydrogen bonds within the DNA double helix and can be incorporated without distortion of the structure extends the possibilities of synthetic biology. Although ...